Chenoweth v. City of New Brighton

I concur in the result reached in this case, largely on the basis of Brennan v. *828Minneapolis Soc’y for the Blind, Inc., 282 N.W.2d 515, 524-25 (Minn.1979) and State v. Wicklund, 576 N.W.2d 758, 757 (Minn. App.1998), aff'd, 589 N.W.2d 793 (Minn. 1999). In particular, despite the mighty labor on the part of appellants’ counsel, I am not persuaded that the city here exercised the type, duration, and level of control over the development of the adjacent parcel so as to require the extraordinary remedy of inverse condemnation. Perhaps, as a matter of fundamental property rights, appellants’…